Chase for ticketing machines



G. W. HENRY, JR.

CHASE FOR TICKETING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE4. 1921.

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Application filed June e,

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE W. HENRY, Jr., acitizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,have invented certain Improvements in Chases for Ticketing Machines, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in chases for ticketingmachines.

The object of the invention is to provide a chase with a numberingdevice, which can be turned by hand to change the numerals indicatingthe layers of fabric that are to be cut into individual pieces, and alsoto provide space for the removal of the type, which can be placed in thechase at intervals.

The invention is especially adapted for use in numbering fabrics inmaking clothing where a large number of pieces of fabric is cut at thesame time, particularly cloth, so as to insure the correct assembling ofthe different sections of a strip of cloth making up a suit, as it isimperative that the shades of the material, of which the suit is made,be properly matched.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is an inverted, detached plan view of my improved chase;

Fig. 2 is a plan view;

Fig. 3 is a view of one side of the chase;

Fig. 4 is a "iew of one end of the chase;

Figs. 5, 6 and 7 illustrate three tickets in which the numbers,indicating the layers of cloth, have been changed; and

Fig. 8 is a view illustrating a ticket secured to a piece of cloth.

Referring to the drawings, 1 is a chase having recesses for the type 2and 3, indicating the number of the order and the number of the goods,and also having recesses a and 5 for the size numbers and a recess 6 forthe word indicating the type of figure that the garment will fit.

7 is a shaft on which are loosely mounted the two numbering disks 8 and9. On the side of the disk 8 are teeth 10 and on the side of the disk 9are teeth 11. 12 is a hollow shaft on which is secured a gear wheel 13,which meshes with the teeth 11 of the disk 9, and on a shaft 14, whichpasses through the hollow shaft is a gear wheel 15, which meshes withthe teeth 10 of the disk 8. On the hollow shaft 12 is a hand wheel 16having numerals similar to the ones on Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. MI 11922.

1921. Serial No. 475,158.

the disk 9. On the shaft 14: is a hand wheel 17 having numerals similarto the ones on the disk 8, with the exception that they are so locatedon these two hand wheels that when 1 is exposed at the chase, 1 is alsouppermost on the hand wheel 17, and there is a blank space uppermost onthe hand wheel 16, when there is a space on the disk 9, so that theoperator can see that the disks are properly turned to make theimpression desired.

On the disk 8 are ratchet teeth 18, which are engaged by a spring pawl19 on a spindle 20, and on the disk 9 are ratchet teeth 21 engaged by apawl 22. These pawls allow the disks to be moved, but hold the disksagainst accidental movement, or creeping, when in use.

My invention is adapted to be attached to a ticketing machine, whichautomatically prints the different characters on a ticket and whichsevers a ticket from a strip and secures the ticket by staples, or bysewing, to the goods.

The invention is especially applicable for use in numbering pieces ofcloth used in making outer garments. In this class of work, it isessential, especially in colored goods, to match the shades correctly,and the only successful way of accomplishing this is to out thedifferent sections, of which the garment is composed, so that they willall be the same shade. In cutting cloth, the usual practice is to cut alarge number of strips at the same time and the shade of one strip maydiffer slightly from the shade of another strip, due to imperfectdyeing. At the present time, the preferred practice is to assemble thedifferent sections that make up a suit from one piece of cloth, and, inorder to distinguish these pieces, those out from the first strip arenumbered 1, and those from the second strip 2, and so on.

Heretofore, these strips were marked by hand, but, by the use of thedevice hereinbefore described, the tickets can be quickly and correctlymarked while passing through the machine, and the strip numbers can bechanged by operating the hand wheels.

I claim:

1. The combination in a chase for ticketing machines, of a body portionhaving recesses for movable type; a shaft; two numbering disks on theshaft located side by side, each wheel having gear teeth and ratchetteeth on the opposite side pawls for engaging the ratchet; two handoperated shafts; and a gear wheel on each shaft, one gear wheel meshingwith the ear teeth on one disk and the other gear wheel meshing with thegear teeth on the other disk.

2. The combination in a chase for ticketing machines, of a body portionhaving recesses for movable type; a shaft; two numbering disks on theshaft located side by side, each wheel having gear teeth and ratchetteeth on the opposite side pawls for engaging-the ratchet; two handoperated shafts; and a gear wheel on each shaft, one gear wheel meshingwith the gear teeth on one disk and the other gear wheel meshing withthe gear teeth on the other disk, each shaft having a hand wheel, onehand wheel having numbers corresponding with the numbers on one disk,and the other having numbers corresponding with the numbers vratchetteeth of each disk; a hollow shaft having a gear Wheel thereon meshingwith the teeth of one disk; a shaft extending through the hollow shaftand having a gear wheel thereon meshing with the teeth of the otherdisk; and a hand wheel on each op erating shaft, the said hand wheelshaving numbers corresponding to the numbers on the disks and so arrangedthat when the numbers are in printing position the corresponding numberson the hand wheels are exposed to View from above.

GEORGE W. HENRY, JR.

